PM Modi Enters War Mode in Battle Against Corruption

The nation is on course to witness an intensification of the drive towards excellence and ending corruption.

- M.D. NALAPAT

After a careful review of the overall situation as it has developed over the years, and determined to make Modi 3.0 an outstanding success in terms of delivering prosperity to the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is understood to be in War Mode in his ongoing battle against corrupt elements within the administrative structure. The War on Corruption is focused on "stopping, rolling back and finally eliminating" such corruption. Methodical and careful, the Prime Minister is learnt to be opposed to such a war turning into a witch-hunt. It is a fact that several officials have in the past served the UPA government, including in ministries known to be less than scrupulous about observing ethical and even legal norms. However, it is the sworn duty of officials in the various services to provide advice and assistance to their political superiors in the order of precedence, and such adherence to the norms of duty expected of them in their particular service ought not to be used as a catchall painting of all or even most of such officials as unreliable in matters of integrity. Across the decades, mini East India Companies have silently operated inside the country, fed by a plentiful flow of funds, to make into national turncoats a handful of elements embedded in the administrative structure to block or at least substantially slow down the country's march towards being the third superpower after the US and China before 2034. Rare earths are known by geologists of integrity to be abundant in some parts of the country, yet progress towards self-sufficiency has been held back. Similar is the case with hydrocarbons or the development of indigenous capability in defence manufacturers. India has the potential to be not what it has become over the years, a huge market for foreign goods, including through so-called "Indian" companies being merely assembly factories to assemble foreign components.